4. Both rain and snow are paradoxical symbols because of the setting and mood of the reading it can represent different meanings that can result contradictory. For instance, rain can symbolize the ideal of cleanse and restoration when it falls, however, it can also signify “mud or dirt that cause to the land when it reaches down.” Similarly, “snow while it falls it is serene, but once some time has elapsed it can become filthy or suffocating.” Some examples of different atmospherics moods that both rain and snow creates are that of total justice. As in “The Dead” by Joyce and in “The Three Strangers” by Thomas Hardy, they symbolized how partial weather is with everyone that it falls “upon everyone between good and evil or living and dead.” On the contrary, they can also symbolize destruction due to the massive natural disasters they are associated with at a large rate as floods or blizzards. 5. Lateral thinking is more susceptible to being determined by conscious will. It is a definite way of applying the mind to a given theme or …show more content…
Both geography and season are significant in this short story because they made the development of the theme possible. In “Ripe Figs” there are only two characters Maman-Nainaine and Babette. Babette asked her godmother permission to visit her cousins, however, Maman-Nainaine knew that she was not prepared and conditioned her to leave until the figs ripen. A disconsolate Babette visited every day the fig-trees awaiting for this event to occur as soon as possible. Thus, Chopin utilized the passing of the seasons in her story, spring “for the leaves upon the trees were tender yet, and the figs were like little hard, green marbles”, then summer, “the first thing they both knew it was hot summer-time,” to illustrate a process that her character faced in order to teach her a lesson of patience and maturity. Finally, autumn arrived and her lesson encouraged by the seasons was learned, hence now Babette was ready to visit her
Michael MacDonald’S All Souls is a heart wrenching insider account of growing up in Old Country housing projects located in the south of Boston, also known as Southie to the locals. The memoir takes the reader deep inside the world of Southie through the eyes of MacDonald. MacDonald was one of 11 children to grow up and deal with the many tribulations of Southie, Boston. Southie is characterized by high levels of crime, racism, and violence; all things that fall under the category of social problem. Social problems can be defined as “societal induced conditions that harms any segment of the population. Social problems are also related to acts and conditions that violate the norms and values found in society” (Long). The social problems that are present in Southie are the very reasons why the living conditions are so bad as well as why Southie is considered one of the poorest towns in Boston. Macdonald’s along with his family have to overcome the presence of crime, racism, and violence in order to survive in the town they consider the best place in the world.
Of course I do not consider myself to be a racist, or a bigot, but I am aware of socially conditioned stereotypes and prejudices that reside within. That awareness, and the ability to think for myself, has allowed me to approach issues with clarity of mind and curiousness at the social interactions of various movements. Buried in the Bitter Waters, by Elliot Jaspin, has easily awakened my sensibilities and knowledge of modern era race relations in the United States. I read each chapter feeling as if I had just read it in the pages before. The theme of racial cleansing - of not only the colonizing of a people, but the destruction of their lives and livelihood – was awesome. The “awesome” of the 17th century, from the Oxford English Dictionary, as in “inspiring awe; appalling, dreadful.” Each story itself was a meditation on dread and horror, the likes of which my generation cannot even fathom. It is with that “awe” that I reflect in this response paper.
As characters in the poem are literally snow bound, they find that the natural occurrence actually serves a relaxing and warming purpose, one that brings together family. This effect is further achieved through the use of meter throughout the work as a whole. In its simplistic yet conversational tone, the author uses meter to depict the result that nature has forced upon these humans, who are but a small sample size that actually is representative of society that that time. Due to nature, the characters can talk, represented by the conversational meter, and thus, they can bond within the family. A larger representation of this more specific example can be applied to a more general perspective of human’s relationship with the natural world. Although “Snowbound” captures what humans do as a result of nature, it can also represent a larger picture, where nature appears at the most opportune times to enhance relationships from human to human. In “snowbound,” this is symbolized by the fire, “Our warm hearth seemed blazing free” (Whittier 135). This image relays a spirited, warm, mood full of security, which is expertly used by the author to show how fire, a natural phenomena, can provide such beneficial effects on humans. This very occurrence exemplifies how such a miniscule aspect of nature can have such a profound effect on a family, leaving the reader wondering what nature and its entirety could accomplish if used as a
Symbolism can also be represented by weather and colors such how it is done in “The Jilting of Granny Weatherall” by Katherine Anne Porter. Throughout the story, Porter uses weather such as fog to represent hell and uses bright colors such as blue to represent what is good such as Heaven. The bad weather that Granny fearfully visions throughout the story symbolizes not only her death to come, but her fear of going to
Joyce’s intentions of the snow will forever be open to interpretation, however it is reasonably evident that his intentions of the snow provide the reader with a symbol used to depict the unification and vulnerability of humanity. It is the snow that first showcases Gabriel’s dominant and superficial personality, and reciprocates itself as it serves as reasoning for the epiphany that illuminated his flawed humility.
Hastur, less an important character than one who is overlooked, joins the ranks of “Olympic-grade lurkers” (15) along with his coworker Ligur, though the other was admittedly the more accomplished of the two. Also a Duke of Hell, Hastur has a better understanding of human technology than most demons, but is still very traditional in his ways. Unlike Crowley, who believes that the growing population of the world requires a wider approach to tempting souls, he along with the rest of Hell surmise that the best way to secure souls is to whittle away at one at a time, slowly committing them to their future presence in the infernal regions. Though demons did not typically possess a deep-rooted evil, Crowley states that Hastur and Ligur “took such a dark delight in unpleasantness you might have even mistaken them for human” (253). He dislikes Crowley in many regards, stating that he has gone native after residing on earth since the first days, and calls him a ‘flash bastard’ because of his disapproval regarding his shift adapt to humanity. Despite this, Hastur is also aware that Crowley is highly favoured among the ranks of Hell, and is therefore uncertain that he is in reality not quite the useless field agent he appeared. He becomes paranoid when he is sent to collect Crowley, after his inability to inform his superiors about the mix-up of the Antichrist, that perhaps he is telling the truth when he says that Hell is testing him before he lead the Legions of the Damned in the upcoming war. This paranoia is in fact a very reasonable thing since he's grown up in Hell, where everyone really is out to get you. It actually turns out that yes, Crowley had been lying, and he was now stuck in his ansaphone machine. He spends a half hour trapp...
Weather is like an author in itself, telling a story. In the book Holes. There was a vast, vibrant lake that made the town living by it survive. The lake produced every kind of nourishment for the town. It was the center of life. When Sam, the simple black man making a living from the lake crops, is murdered, the town suddenly stops getting rain. The lake ends up drying up and the town lays to waste. The lack of rain symbolizes the harsh payback the murderers had coming. It was a punishment to the town. Also Sam's girlfriend Kate is telling the story at that point, so the dried up lake means a sense of hopelessness for her. She wants to dry up and die just as the lake that Sam had lived on had done. Hopefully everyone knows the story of Stanley
In the three short works, "Ripe Figs," "The Story of an Hour," and "The Storm," Kate Chopin has woven into each an element of nature over which no one has control. She uses short time spans to heighten impact and bring her stories to quick conclusions. She displays attitudes in her characters in two of her stories which may have been very controversial at the time they were written. "Ripe Figs" is the shorter of the three, covering a summer in a young girl's life. The figs need to ripen before she can visit her cousins. At first the leaves of the fig tree were tender and the figs were "little hard, green marbles" (4). Each time she would slowly walk beneath the leaves, she would go away disappointed. Then one day she saw something that made her "sing and dance the whole day long" (4). The figs were ripe. However when she sat some down before her godmother, the godmother said, "Ah, how early the figs have ripened this year!", but for the girl, they "ripened very late" (4). Kate Chopin's second short story, "The Story of an Hour," takes place in the space of an hour, during which a wife comes to terms with the death of her husband. Upon the news of her husband's death, she wept with "wild abandonment" (12). After "the storm of grief had spent itself" (12), she went to her room alone. There she sat in a "roomy armchair" (12), facing the window. She could see new life in the leaves on the trees and smell a "breath of rain in the air" (12). Also she could hear the sounds of life still going on; "a peddler was crying his wares, and the music of someone singing in the distance reached her, along with the sound of countless sparrows twittering in the eave...
The four stanza poem Desert Places is about Frosts’ sad emotions of looking at an empty field covered in snow, which is a metaphor of his own
In Kate Chopin’s short story “Ripe Figs” we acknowledge the two characters as complete opposites. Maman-Nainaine is a patient elderly woman, whereas Babette is an immature young girl. Through-out this short story Chopin uses contrast to show age versus youth and humans time versus nature’s seasons.
“Lady Lazarus” provides unfiltered insight into the emotions and desires of a deeply tormented woman. Having been denied a relationship with her father, abased by a dissatisfied mother, betrayed by her husband, and deprived of the ability to take her own life, Sylvia Plath was desperately seeking control. Plath’s “Lady Lazarus” contains her evolution from a tortured and paranoid soul to a powerful feministic icon that seems to be more than human. Despite the openness of the poem, in nature and in form, the disturbing imagery works to place tremendous distance between the poet and the reader. While this places Plath at the center of a spectacle—a situation for which she clearly expresses her discontent—she secures a commanding position in which spectators could only view with detached fascination. Written in the tempestuous period surrounding Plath’s 30th birthday, the work contains vivid descriptions of her pain, but at its core it is a woman’s struggle for control. As the poem develops, Plath moves from a vulnerable state of suffering and weakness to a position in which she seizes control of life and death, warning God and Lucifer of her newfound power. Plath rises in steps throughout the poem, as if it were an outline of her strategy. The poet demonstrates the method in which she must first control her oppressors as well as her own experiences of suicide, later being rendered capable of completing this transformation as a result of her election to return to wreak havoc rather than embrace a mundane lifestyle.
“The Withered Arm” is a tragedy of fate and is a story of two women
The Withered Arm by Thomas Hardy What can we learn about Victorian society from the story The Withered? Arm by Thomas Hardy -? Do you think that the story is relevant for today. What is the best way to get started?
For my book I chose to read The Body by Stephen King. This novel is about four young boys taking a journey to find a body somewhere in the woods that is at the county line. This story is about more than just four boys going on an adventure its about them becoming closer to each other and learning real life lessons along the way. The four boys are all going into their first year of middle school so this is a time in their life when they learn things that will help them in life.
In the art world, everything is considered art, no matter how hard an artist did or din’t work on the piece of art. Art comes in many different forms and meanings. Artist can use art as a way to express themselves, get a message across to the viewers or readers, and leaving the artwork open for the viewer to decide what the art piece is. Charles Baudelaire wrote the art piece, The Joyous Dead in 1857, Henry Ossawa Tanner painted the artwork, The Thankful Poor in 1894, and Jackson Pollock painted the art work, Autumn Rhythm in 1950. These three artworks are reflections of self expression, yet they all represent a different expression.